Rush Hour 4 remains to be racing forward, however the highly-anticipated sequel might hit a major pace bump when it comes time to pay its two major stars.
Negotiations are ongoing between Rush Hour 4 producers and Paramount, experiences Puck, however the price range quantity being bandied about is probably not sufficient to cowl the price of signing Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan to reprise their roles.
Brett Ratner reportedly needs to begin filming the Rush Hour sequel in spring or summer season 2026, with a price range of round $100 million, which appears like a tidy sum, till one considers that Tucker and Chan every remodeled $20 million on Rush Hour 3.
As soon as the financials are all sorted out, plans are to shoot the movie in China, Africa, and Saudi Arabia. Tucker and Chan have each expressed curiosity in doing one other Rush Hour movie, however neither actor has entered negotiations as of but.
It was reported again in November that Paramount was on-board to distribute Rush Hour 4, after reaching settlement with Warner Bros. on a price. The undertaking was reportedly given an enormous help by an unlikely booster, when Donald Trump inspired Paramount proprietor David Ellison to make it occur.
Rush Hour franchise mastermind Ratner directed the upcoming documentary Melania, concerning the First Woman of america, Melania Trump.
It has been an extended hiatus for the Rush Hour collection of motion movies, with Rush Hour 3 releasing approach again in 2007. In 2017, director Ratner confronted a rash of sexual assault allegations, forcing WB to chop ties with him, and seemingly casting Rush Hour 4 into limbo.
Rush Hour star Chan spoke about his personal need to make one other sequel, telling ScreenRant again in Could that whereas he doesn’t know something concerning the undertaking’s standing, he is able to go if the movie will get made.
“I wish to do a Rush Hour 4,” Chan mentioned, whereas expressing some urgency about getting the movie underway, given the inexorable march of time. “Hurry up! In any other case, Chris Tucker and me [will be] 100 years previous. We’ll be previous males doing Rush Hour.”
Ratner started speaking about Rush Hour 4 quickly after the discharge of the third movie, which added $258 million to the franchise’s whole worldwide field workplace haul of $848 million, however value as much as $180 million to supply, due largely to its stars’ huge salaries.
The director himself predicted potential price range points for a fourth Rush Hour film, when in 2011 he said to Vulture that the sequel in all probability wouldn’t get made, as a result of, “It might be an excessive amount of to pay me, Chris [Tucker], and Jackie [Chan] to come back again.”
Ratner’s ongoing involvement within the Rush Hour franchise was known as into query after 2017’s assault allegations, however it seems he continues to be on the helm of the Trump-approved motion collection.